Heading north
Londoners in their 30s are moving out
CENTRAL Birmingham is buzzing. The fine square in Brindleyplace is lined with snazzy restaurants, and after 6pm, smartly dressed office workers. (“Every year there are more of them,” says a waiter.) In 2003 the city got a globby new branch of Selfridges, a posh London department store (see picture), and in 2011 its first craft beer bar took over a former post office. Behind the redbrick factory facades of nearby Bradford Street, the yuppies are also taking over, quietly occupying new flats within.
This article appeared in the Britain section of the print edition under the headline “Heading north”
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